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O\u2019Ward, 27, has experienced everything from failing to qualify to coming within two corners of winning one of the biggest prizes in racing, suffering a late defeat at the hands of Josef Newgarden two years ago.<\/p>\n
Yet there\u2019s no regret or frustration. His relationship with this iconic race is \u201call positive.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s all been either a learning curve or some of the greatest memories that I have in my career,\u201d O\u2019Ward told The Athletic<\/em>. \u201cThere are just challenges that you need to accept when you sign up for this.\u201d<\/p>\nO\u2019Ward will go into his seventh Indy 500 on Sunday not only harboring his own hopes of success, but also as part of McLaren\u2019s bid to replicate its recent Formula 1 success. The team hasn\u2019t won the Indy 500 since Johnny Rutherford\u2019s victory in 1976.<\/p>\n
Fifty years on, Rutherford will again be donning \u201cMcLaren orange,\u201d as he called it, in his role as a team ambassador. The 88-year-old told The Athletic<\/em> it felt \u201cperfect\u201d to have reunited with McLaren in recent years, and he will be watching closely on Sunday.<\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019ve been there and done that, you know,\u201d Rutherford said. \u201cIt\u2019s an opportunity to relive it, and to enjoy the team company and the team.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\n McLaren last won the Indy 500 with Johnny Rutherford in 1976 (Michael Montfort\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nMcLaren has four cars in the 33-strong field for this year\u2019s race. O\u2019Ward\u2019s full-season teammates, Christian Lundgaard and Nolan Siegel, have been joined by Ryan Hunter-Reay, a 45-year-old veteran going into his 18th Indy 500, who won the race back in 2014 and led a chunk of last year\u2019s race that only whetted his appetite for another shot.<\/p>\n
The McLaren IndyCar program has become the \u201cbaby,\u201d to quote Lundgaard, of Zak Brown, McLaren Racing\u2019s CEO.<\/p>\n
When Brown took the reins of McLaren at the end of 2016, the remit from his new bosses was very clear: get the struggling F1 team back to the top. But he was already thinking of success beyond F1. He knew of McLaren\u2019s history in other series, including wins at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Indianapolis 500. And one of those races had an extra special place in Brown\u2019s heart.<\/p>\n
\u201cIndianapolis is kind of a second home,\u201d Brown, who previously lived in the city for 20 years, told The Athletic<\/em>. \u201cThe racing that I grew up with was Indy car racing.\u201d<\/p>\nAs Brown worked to turn the F1 team around \u2014 culminating in winning both world championships last year \u2014 the seeds were already being sown to get McLaren back to the Indy 500. A one-off entry for Fernando Alonso in 2017, in collaboration with Andretti, offered a first taste ahead of McLaren eventually buying into the Schmidt Peterson Motorsports team three years later.<\/p>\n
In between, there was a miserable experience failing to qualify with Alonso in 2019, a \u201ctotal disaster\u201d that Brown now looks back on fondly due to how much he learned. But it didn\u2019t shake his commitment to getting McLaren back into IndyCar.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd here we are, coming off the most successful year the team\u2019s ever had under our ownership,\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Ward won twice en route to second place in the standings in 2025, while Lundgaard was a podium regular. Lundgaard then scored his first IndyCar win with McLaren two weeks ago in the road course race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s working to restore the reputation of McLaren as an American racing powerhouse, as it was in the 1960s and 1970s when it dominated the Can-Am sports car series and won the Indianapolis 500 twice in 1974 and 1976. But to truly get back there, it\u2019s going to take something more.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe could win a championship, we could win another 100 race, but unless we win a 500\u2026 that\u2019s the main goal, to put McLaren back in the victory circle at Indy,\u201d Kyle Moyer, McLaren\u2019s director of competition, told The Athletic<\/em>. \u201cBecause that\u2019s where they built their reputation in the States.\u201d<\/p>\nMoyer said winning the Indy 500 was \u201cthe hardest accomplishment in racing\u201d, given the competition. It\u2019s about so much more than having a quick driver and car. Managing tires and fuel strategy, as well as reacting to yellow-flag cautions, can flip races. \u201cYou have to be perfect on that day for three hours,\u201d Moyer said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis place surprises you, man,\u201d added O\u2019Ward. \u201dLike you can throw a pretty big curve ball at the wrong time and at the worst of times.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\n Pato O\u2019Ward during practice for the 110th Indianapolis 500 in Indianapolis on May 15, 2026 (Brandon Badraoui\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nA \u201chiccup,\u201d as he described it, came for O\u2019Ward on Monday. After qualifying sixth the previous day, he got caught up in Alexander Rossi\u2019s practice crash that forced McLaren to build up a replacement chassis that O\u2019Ward wouldn\u2019t drive until practice on Friday. Restoring the feel and confidence was the goal of the two-hour session on Carb Day.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe ran good,\u201d Tony Kanaan, McLaren\u2019s IndyCar team principal, told The Athletic<\/em> after the session. \u201cPato\u2019s happy. We\u2019re prepared. I think we have fast cars.\u201d<\/p>\nIf anyone can sympathise with O\u2019Ward\u2019s near-misses at Indy, it\u2019s Kanaan. Despite winning the championship in 2004 and taking pole for the 500 in 2005, it wasn\u2019t until 2013 that he finally won it. \u201cI know exactly what he\u2019s going through,\u201d Kanaan said. \u201cI had 12 years of the same thing. I thought I was done with that, I was like, \u2018Oh, thank God.\u2019 Now I suffer for him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a long time since I\u2019ve worked with a driver (who is) that naturally talented,\u201d Moyer said of O\u2019Ward. \u201cHe gets in and just wheels the car, which is great. He never gets passed. He\u2019s always going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
This year marks Moyer\u2019s 39th Indy 500. He\u2019s won 10 of them, enjoying successful stints with Andretti and most famously Penske. After his exit from the latter midway through last year in the fallout of the cheating scandal at Indianapolis, where Penske was found to have illegally modified two of its cars after qualifying, McLaren swooped in to secure Moyer\u2019s services.<\/p>\n
Moyer first met Brown at a Starbucks in North Carolina, and was immediately struck by his vision for the program. \u201cWe sat there for an hour and a half and talked,\u201d said Moyer. \u201cI showed up (at home) and my wife looked at me right away and said, \u2018so we\u2019re going to McLaren, aren\u2019t we?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Moyer\u2019s arrival was a big shot in the arm for the team, helping its evolution under Kanaan. After driving for the team at the Indy 500 in 2023, Kanaan moved up the leadership ranks to become team principal at the start of 2025. The team also opened a new shop at the start of 2026, taking over a former Andretti facility.<\/p>\n
Kanaan wanted to change the culture within McLaren\u2019s IndyCar setup as it moved away from the team\u2019s previous identity and scale. Schmidt Peterson Motorsports enjoyed some success and scored race wins, but there had to be a shift in mentality if it wanted to win championships. The pursuit to win was now non-negotiable. It had to step up.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnderstand that I\u2019m going to wake up every morning obsessed,\u201d Kanaan said. \u201cThat\u2019s what I expect from everyone.\u201d He noted the similarity to Brown\u2019s experience pushing change through at McLaren\u2019s F1 team.<\/p>\n
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\n Tony Kanaan and Christian Lundgaard on the podium after the 2026 Sonsio Grand Prix in Indianapolis (Brandon Badraoui\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe transition from driving to now running an IndyCar team has given Kanaan a new perspective on success at the Indy 500, somewhat to his surprise. \u201cI didn\u2019t think I would ever feel the same way I did as a driver,\u201d Kanaan said. \u201cIt\u2019s not more or less, because it\u2019s different. But I\u2019m coming to the conclusion that the feeling is as good. It\u2019s addicting.\u201d<\/p>\n
After last year\u2019s Indy 500, Kanaan started to talk to Hunter-Reay, a former teammate, about joining McLaren for the 2026 race. He\u2019s also supported the team and drivers at every test and race so far this year, serving as an experienced voice within the engineering room.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe call him \u2018dad\u2019 now!\u201d joked Lundgaard. \u201cHe\u2019s got three extra kids added on top of the three he already has!\u201d<\/p>\n
Siegel added: \u201cI think we kind of needed that. It\u2019s been great to work with him. He has so much experience, especially here at the 500.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hunter-Reay said McLaren was \u201ca brand that transcends motorsports\u201d with its success across F1 and a world title win last year. \u201cWe need to get the Indy 500 win next.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brown has never seen McLaren\u2019s IndyCar project as being totally separate from the F1 efforts. His metaphor of choice is that they are both planets within the McLaren racing galaxy. As of 2027, that will also include a top-level sports car program, giving McLaren the chance to compete for all three \u2018Triple Crown\u2019 races \u2014 the Indy 500, the Monaco GP and Le Mans \u2014 in the same year.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe (won) them in three different decades with three different team bosses,\u201d Brown said. \u201cMaybe my personal goal and the team goals align. I\u2019ve got my photo on the podium at Monaco (won last year by Lando Norris), so my personal dream is to have three.<\/p>\n
\u201c(I want us) to do it in the papaya era, the same era, the same decade. If it could one day happen the same year, that would be just insane.\u201d<\/p>\n
But first things first: tomorrow\u2019s race. From sixth, O\u2019Ward is certain to be a name in the conversation at the front. Finally getting that Indy 500 win would change everything, not just for the burgeoning McLaren team as a whole, but especially for O\u2019Ward.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like that would represent the close of a cycle,\u201d O\u2019Ward said. \u201cIt all started with a dream, right? And it\u2019s something that I\u2019ve been working towards for quite some time now, that\u2019s been within grasping distance.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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